hiya

Wow it looks so warm back in the states! We are little ice cubes down here at the moment. Looks like you have been enjoying the summer break so far! Those were always the best weeks of the school year.. the last ones haha. We are getting ready this week for a visit of Elder Bragg from the seventy tomorrow actually. That will be really great and we are excited to see him and learn from him. We are having a meeting with the entire mission at once. It will be pretty wild. In all my time here we have never done that, we usually are split up by zones but we will all be here at once all 190 of us!

Right now we are trying to find people to teach, but we have found a little family that is showing lots of progress. Rene and Claudia. They are both fire fighters. The fire fighters her are volunteers like in Lemony Snicket, so they work apart but are pretty proud about the fire fighting abilities. When we first met them Claudia told us about the lack of faith she had in her life because of some trials and things she had seen but little by little as we have taught her we have seen a change and actually a few days ago she said a prayer out loud which was a huge progress. They have seen lots of improvements in their family and in their relationship. 

I hope that everyone enjoys their summer and soak up lots of rays! Haha you for sure have to go on a few hikes. That is definitely the one thing I miss about Utah is the mountains and the trees. 

Have the best week! 

Elder Holdstock